Sunday, 9 June 2013

Sumthin’s wrong with it,

Sumthin’s wrong with it,

Sumthin’s wrong with the wuh wuh world.....

I am a fairly easy going person.I tend to take people on face value and I
like to come to my own conclusions about what kind or person they are.I don’t care what age, race or religion they
are and they’re lifestyle choices are their own to make.As long as they are not hurting anyone or
anything, they are making choices of their own free will and they are not
trying to force their ideas or ideologies down my throat, then I accept their
choices.I may not agree with their
views or ideals, but I defend their right to live as they wish.And this is what I feel is seriously wrong
with society today.There is a lack of
tolerance and an enormous lack of respect not just for other people, but also
our environment.

Respect and tolerance go hand in hand.If you do not respect the differences of
other people - sex, age, race, lifestyle, society and customs - then how can
you have tolerance towards those differences? I know
there are some customs and rituals that cannot be tolerated as they cause pain
and suffering against other people, especially women.But is it not the lack of respect for women
in those societies that lets the custom or ritual continue?? Respect is a simple word with a simple
meaning, but its impact on people's lives is enormous and far reaching
and all intricately connected by morals.

Basic respect for yourself leads you to live a life
governed by your morals.It lets you
make decisions and choices that you feel you are worthy of and that will
enhance and impact on your life with a desired effect.People with no self respect have limited or
damaged morals. How can they have self
respect when they use, abuse and inflict pain and suffering? They abuse themselves and others, sometimes
with devastating effect.Drug and
alcohol abuse, environmental misuse, crime and corruption have been on a steady
rise.Disrespect for themselves, humanity,
society and their surroundings have a flow on effect. People who commit crime have no respect for
society or its boundaries.They abuse
the system and the law.They disrespect
their victims causing fear, heartache, pain and sometimes death. By committing a crime they show no respect for
themselves and therefore become their own victim.Self abuse in its simplest form.A classic Catch 22

If people started working on their own self respect and started
looking more closely at the things they say, the things they do and the respect
they give and receive, then I think there would be a lot more tolerance in the
world and a lot less pain and suffering.Think about racial slurs, misconceptions about other races, your
environmental footprint, the way you interact with other people, the remarks
you may think or make and the impact this all has on your children as they
learn their behaviours from you.The longest
journey starts with the smallest step...are you nurturing respect and tolerance
through your thoughts and actions....or are you contributing to the oppression of
people’s basic rights and the destruction of our beautiful world?